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We
just
mailed
our
February
IBM
Software
Newsletter,
featuring
the
top
stories
from
Lotusphere
2012.
And
while
products
like
IBM
Connections
'Next'
and
Notes
and
Domino
Social
Edition
grabbed
the
headlines,
IBM
Docs
and
Lotus
Symphony
are
getting
a
LOT
of
attention
from
our
readers.
IBM
Docs
(previously
called
LotusLive
Symphony)
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Of
the
many
announcements
made
this
week
at
Lotusphere
2012,
the
one
that
resonated
most
with
our
readers
was
the
new
IBM
SmartCloud
for
Social
Business
–
a
re-branding
and
expansion
of
what
you
now
know
as
IBM
LotusLive
cloud-based
collaboration
offerings.
The
key
take-aways
from
this
announcement:
For
now,
you
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“All
right
stop,
collaborate
and
listen…”
Some
people
might
argue,
but
former
rapper
and
musician
Vanilla
Ice
was
a
visionary.
Truth
be
told,
he
probably
wasn’t
talking
about
business
analytics
when
he
eloquently
penned
those
famous
lyrics
in
“Ice,
Ice
Baby.”
But,
he
could
have
been.
We
live
in
a
collaborative
world
today…whether
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As
I
have
talked
with
business
people
and
public
servants
around
the
world
this
past
year,
many
of
them
has
asked
me
what
the
difference
between
social
media
and
Social
Business
is.
It
is
a
fair
question.
With
all
the
facebook
traffic,
the
highly
visible
bog
entries,
and
the
viral
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What's
the
face
of
business
today?
Just
15
years
ago,
the
answer
to
that
question
might
have
been
’the
retail
presence’
or,
in
a
few
rare
cases,
’the
celebrity
CEO.’
But
today,
the
best
and
most
common
answer
is,
quite
simply,
the
web.
Doubt
my
conclusion?
Consider
the
numbers.
Recent
statistics
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